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School news: International Language Competition Success
Education Perfect is an online learning tool based in New Zealand and used by thousands of students all over the world. It was first introduced to St Swithun’s by the former Head of Modern Languages, Anton Kendall, as he had experienced great success with it during an earlier teaching post in Sydney, Australia.
The site teaches, tests and monitors students’ language learning and encourages competition worldwide amongst its subscribers. There are points given for progress in vocabulary learning and for completing tasks in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Last academic year, students from St Swithun’s school entered one of these competitions and were awarded first place in the UK as well as being ranked an impressive 58th worldwide. Individually, 12 year old student Cheryl Chu and 15 year old student Erin ThorneHenderson both placed in the top 100 in the world, finishing 63rd and 65th respectively. St Swithun’s students together answered over 350,000 questions and logged over 500 hours of answering language questions.
More recently, the students entered another Education Perfect International Language Championship and, even though it took place over three days in half term, St Swithun’s was once again awarded first place in the UK and 56th worldwide!
Head of German at St Swithun’s, Anne Steer said, “Despite it being half term the girls made an incredible effort and once again achieved fantastic results. I am very proud of their hard work and delighted they are enjoying and benefiting from the use of such an outstanding learning platform.”
